A $4K fine (NY) would certainly have been a wake-up call. Drunk people generally consider themselves invulnerable, but my sober self would have done more to ensure that I didn’t even get into such a position to begin with. Now I am just a teetotaller all of the time, it’s a lot easier.

Whoa! As a cheap bastard, you will be disturbed to hear that the ultimate Sunbeam T-9 toaster is available for $1,450 at 1st Dibs. Jiminy. Guess I won’t be going that route.

“New” to me is anything developed after the bursting of the Japanese financial bubble. 

Yeah, I am not sure that I want one of the Maruti-built ones but I love kei cars. What didn’t you like? The tinniness? Not enough crumple zones? The Zen was actually a Suzuki Cervo Mode (the JDM Alto’s sporty and luxurious sibling), widened by ten centimetres and fitted with a HUUUUGE one-liter engine, and then…

I feel for the guy, but to imply that he has lost both his pride and his independence might be laying it on a bit thick. Anyhow, new cars suck and so do all of their features.

Here is a candidate:

Awesome, isn’t it? And he is short for a Dutchman; Dutch males are 7'13" tall on average.

I would imagine that this was to be expected. I know that Subaru’s Lane Assist system drove me completely insane in a five-minute drive, so I wouldn’t trust them to get something like this glitchless.

It might be because of crappy programming. My Suzuki SX4 had it and it worked really well; completely inobtrusive but very efficient (as I noticed after I turned it off for a while).

Yep. It’s one of those features that is treated as a selling point in the showroom and then will never ever be used.

The Conlight Automatic Lamp system in my (new-to-me) 1996 Toyota Caldina. Automatic lights remove the need to turn them on, but on the other hand they occasionally come on or off in tunnels or because some light strikes the car at a certain angle. Utterly useless.

I know, if I ever get that SS80 Alto I have been dreaming of for years I will most likely source it from Holland.

Being a black sovereign citizen sounds pretty ballsy, though.

I wish there were a lot more DUI check points - that might have stopped me from driving drunk before I crashed my car and damned near wrecked my whole life. When people don’t get caught early on with a slap on the wrist, they tend to continue and escalate. Broken windows and all that.

That bit with the gold fringe on the flag/admiralty law certainly sounded autistic.

Those export horsepower also felt a bit more honest than the JIS Gross used at home. There was also an SSS version with a 36hp version of the 356cc LC10 engine. Most of the Fronte 500s sold in Europe seem to have gone to your fair country. 

Ahahahah. A relative of mine once bought a used VW Beetle from an academic type in Uppsala; after two days he realized the passenger door was inoperable as the hinges were all rusted together due to lack of use. Very sad...

I just spent $60 on a 1962 Suzulight brochure. That’s probably the equivalent impact to me as $120K on the bank accounts of whatever tech bro is buying this ITR.

Pretty sure that the only thing people want is SUVs and Crossovers and maybe something that’s a little bit of both.

Owen, the illustrations are a bit confusing - you used a Brazilian market Chevette (which looks very different from the US one) and a JDM Stanza, which also looks very different from the USDM version.